Custom user interface profiles

In IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence, you can use user interface profiles to control the features and functionality that are available in the user interface (UI). Users with different profiles see different interfaces and experience different default behavior. There are two default profiles, but to meet the specific needs of your organization, you can create and customize new UI profiles. Customized profiles are used in Cognos Workspace Advanced.

You can use the two default user interface profiles to grant access to a fully-featured Report Studio Professional user interface or to a simpler Cognos Workspace Advanced user interface. If the needs of your users fall in between the two default profiles, or if you want users to see an interface with fewer features than Cognos Workspace Advanced, you can create and customize a new profile.

When you create a profile, consider system efficiencies and the skills and business goals of your users, when you decide which options to include or exclude from the profile.

Custom user interface profiles are disabled by default to preserve compatibility with the SDK and legacy objects. Enabling custom user interface profiles is a onetime, nonreversible action.

When custom profiles are enabled, Library Administrators have Read, Write, Execute, Set policy, and Traverse permissions for the profiles. To use a profile, users must have the Read permission.

For the default Report Studio Professional, and Cognos Workspace Advanced profiles, you can perform the following actions:

Set the access permissions for users, groups, and roles.
Copy the profiles.

You cannot delete or edit the default profiles.

For profiles that you create, you can perform the following actions:

Set properties, general, and permissions.
View my permissions.
Copy the profiles.
Delete the profile from the Library and from Content Manager.
Edit the profile.

User interface profiles are supported by deployments.